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. xxx is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
On 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States launched surprise airstrikes on multiple sites and cities across Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and numerous other Iranian officials. Iran responded with missile and drone strikes against Israel, US bases, and US-allied countries in the region.
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister. Born in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu was raised in West Jerusalem and the United States.
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi) with events mostly in the United States. Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π and was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, an employee of a science museum in San Francisco, the Exploratorium.
The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Philip Anthony Campbell (May 7, 1961 – March 13, 2026) was a Welsh rock musician, best known as the guitarist in Motörhead from 1984 until its disbandment in 2015 upon the death of founder and frontman Lemmy. He also toured with his own band Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, featuring his three sons.
The number π ( ; spelled out as pi) is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3. 14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics, and some of these formulae are commonly used for defining π, to avoid relying on the definition of the length of a curve.
One Piece (stylized in all caps) is a fantasy adventure television series developed by Matt Owens and Steven Maeda for Netflix. The series is a live-action adaptation of the 1997 Japanese manga series One Piece by Eiichiro Oda, who serves as a creative consultant for the television series. It is produced by Kaji Productions and Shueisha, who also publishes the manga.
War Machine is a 2026 science fiction action film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Patrick Hughes. It stars Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Daniel Webber. The film was released theatrically in Australia on February 12, 2026, before releasing on Netflix on March 6.
Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian Shia cleric who became the third supreme leader of Iran in March 2026. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the second child of the previous supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Born in Mashhad, a city in northeastern Iran, he was nine when his father emerged as a leading figure in the Iranian Revolution.
John Alford (born John James Shannon; 30 October 1971 – 13 March 2026) was a British actor, singer, convicted child sex offender and drug dealer. He played Robbie Wright in the BBC series Grange Hill (1985–1990) and Billy Ray in the ITV series London's Burning (1993–1998). He also had three Top 30 hits on the UK singles chart in 1996.
The Strait of Hormuz ( Persian: تنگهٔ هرمز, romanized: Tange-ye Hormoz , Arabic: مَضيق هُرمُز, romanized: Maḍīq Hurmuz) is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points.
Austin Kenneth Wells Fernández (born July 12, 1999) is a Dominican-American professional baseball catcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the University of Arizona, and the Yankees selected him in the first round of the 2020 MLB draft. Wells made his MLB debut in 2023.
The Six Nations Championship (known as the Six Nations, branded as Guinness M6N) is an annual international rugby union competition by the men's teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the oldest sports tournament contested by the Home Nations. The championship holders are France, who won the 2026 tournament.
The Madison is a neo-Western television series created by Taylor Sheridan for Paramount+. The series follows the Clyburn family, originally from New York City, who relocate to the Madison River valley of southwest Montana for emotional recovery following a major life-changing tragedy that both shocked and permanently changed the Clyburn family.
The 2026 World Baseball Classic is an international professional baseball tournament between 20 national baseball teams, and the sixth iteration of the World Baseball Classic (WBC). It began on March 5, 2026, and will run until March 17. The pool-play rounds were played in Miami, Florida; Houston, Texas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Tokyo, Japan.
Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, the film stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal identical twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil.
Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American government official and former television personality who has served since 2025 as the 29th United States secretary of defense. Hegseth studied politics at Princeton University, where he was the publisher of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student newspaper.
Louis Sebastian Theroux (LOO-ee thə-ROO; born 20 May 1970) is a British documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, Theroux moved to the United States and worked as a journalist for Metro Silicon Valley and Spy.
The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the sport's global governing body, and organized by World Baseball Classic Inc., a partnership of the WBSC with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
Shingle Creek is a small waterway in central Florida that is generally considered to be the northernmost headwaters of the Everglades watershed. It is named after the cypress trees that lined the bank in the late 19th century, which were used to make wood shingles. The stream and surrounding wetlands are part of ongoing preservation efforts.
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
The 98th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will take place on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States. During the gala, the AMPAS will present Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories, honoring films released in 2025.
One Battle After Another is a 2025 American black comedy action-thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film's ensemble cast is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti (in her film debut).
Liza May Minnelli ( LY-zə; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Tony Awards.
Sir William Boyd Dawkins (26 December 1837 – 15 January 1929) was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Manchester. He is noted for his research on fossils and the antiquity of man.
Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy New York City family, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is the second America-class amphibious assault ship built for the United States Navy. In May 2012, United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the ship's name as Tripoli, in honor of the US Marine Corps victory against Tripoli at the Battle of Derna during the First Barbary War.
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
Jessie Buckley (born December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include a British Academy Film Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Scottish BAFTA, and an Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second.
Hoppers is a 2026 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Daniel Chong and written by Jesse Andrews from a story by Chong and Andrews, the film stars the voices of Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, and Dave Franco.
Motörhead were an English rock band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and lead vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox. Kilmister was the primary songwriter and only constant member. The band are often considered a precursor to the new wave of British heavy metal, which re-energised heavy metal in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Project Hail Mary is a 2026 American science fiction adventure film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling (who also produced the film), Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, and Milana Vayntrub.
The Pitt is an American medical procedural drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, and executive produced by John Wells and Noah Wyle. It is Gemmill, Wells, and Wyle's second collaboration; they previously worked together on ER. It stars Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, and Shabana Azeez.
2026 Formula One World Championship
The 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship is a motor racing championship for Formula One cars and the 77th running of the Formula One World Championship. It is recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars.
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is a 2002 American action thriller film directed by Rob Cohen, produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes. The first installment in the xXx film series, the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman, and rebellious athlete-turned-reluctant spy for the National Security Agency.
Limonene () is a colorless liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon classified as a cyclic monoterpene, and is the major component in the fragrance and essential oil of citrus fruit peels, taking its name from Italian limone ("lemon"). Limonene is a chiral molecule, and most biological sources produce just one enantiomer (isomer).
Ludvig Noa Åberg (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlɵ̌dːvɪɡ ˈoːbɛrj]; born 31 October 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour. Before turning professional in June 2023, Åberg had been ranked number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for a total of 29 weeks. He finished on top of the 2022–23 PGA Tour University rankings to earn membership on the tour.
Love Story is an American biographical romance anthology television series created by Connor Hines and executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, D.V. DeVincentis, Kim Rosenstock, and Hines. The fifth installment in the American Story media franchise, it airs on FX and FX on Hulu.
The Secret Agent (Portuguese: O Agente Secreto) is a 2025 historical political thriller film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. It follows Armando (Wagner Moura), a former professor caught in the political turmoil in the midst of the Brazilian military dictatorship, attempting to flee persecution and resist an authoritarian regime.
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman ( zen-DAY-ə; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, and was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $3. 9 billion worldwide.
Bugonia is a 2025 black comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth.
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, diplomat, and attorney. She served as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 and ambassador to Australia from 2022 to 2024. Most of Kennedy's professional life has been in literature, law, politics, education reform, and charity.
Alan Michael Ritchson (born November 28, 1982) is an American actor. He made his acting debut as Aquaman / Arthur Curry on The CW superhero series Smallville (2005–10), where he appeared as a guest star between the fifth and 10th seasons. He subsequently had a starring role in the Spike TV sitcom Blue Mountain State (2010–2012), a role he reprised in the 2016 film sequel.
Mackenyu Maeda (前田 真剣佑, Maeda Makken'yū; born November 16, 1996), known professionally as Mackenyu Arata (Japanese: 新田 真剣佑, Hepburn: Arata Makken'yū) or simply Mackenyu (真剣佑, Makken'yū), is a Japanese-American actor. He rose to fame after portraying Arata Wataya in the Chihayafuru live-action trilogy in 2016, which earned him the 40th Japan Academy Newcomers of the Year Award in 2017.
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner. It has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707. Boeing gave the aircraft the internal designation of Model 717, with the number later assigned to a different Boeing aircraft.
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself.
Paul Nicholas Miller (born August 11, 1988), better known as GypsyCrusader, is an American white supremacist internet personality of Romani ancestry. Described as homophobic, antisemitic and racist by various advocacy groups and the United States Department of Justice, he frequently live streams himself cosplaying as various contemporary popular culture personas.
Young Sherlock (British TV series)
Young Sherlock is a mystery television series that is created by Matthew Parkhill and developed by Peter Harness and Guy Ritchie. It is inspired by Andrew Lane's Young Sherlock Holmes book series, itself a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories. Guy Ritchie directed the series, and Hero Fiennes Tiffin stars as Holmes.
Timothée Hal Chalamet (born December 27, 1995) is an American and French actor. Known for his work in a diverse range of blockbusters and independent films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, six British Academy Film Awards, and a Grammy Award.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239. 4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.
Prince Anthony Stanisław Albert Radziwiłł (Polish pronunciation: [raˈd͡ʑiviww]; August 4, 1959 – August 10, 1999) was a Swiss-born American television executive and filmmaker. He was the son of Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield and Polish aristocrat and diplomat Prince Stanisław Radziwiłł, and a nephew of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections are expected to be held in West Bengal in April 2026 to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
The 2026 Men's Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Men's Six Nations for sponsorship reasons and branded as M6N) was a rugby union competition that took place from early February to mid-March 2026, featuring the men's national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.
Kritika Kamra (born 25 October 1988) is an Indian actress. She began her career in television, with the soap operas Kitani Mohabbat Hai (2009–2011), Kuch Toh Log Kahenge (2011–2013), and Reporters (2015). Kamra has also featured in Anubhav Sinha's film Bheed (2023), and the Amazon Prime Video series Tandav (2021) and Bambai Meri Jaan (2023).
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a 2025 science fiction comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Matthew Robinson. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor, and Juno Temple. It follows a man from the future who travels to the past to recruit patrons of a Los Angeles diner to help combat a rogue artificial intelligence.
Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have committed or been accused of committing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, as well as the aiding and abetting of crimes by proto-statelets or puppet statelets which are armed and financed by Russia, including the Luhansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic.
Tia Billinger (born 1999), known professionally as Bonnie Blue, is an English sex worker. After attending 2023's schoolies week, she had sex with large numbers of students at both spring break in Cancún and freshers' week in Derby and Nottingham and went viral for discussing her sex life on GK Barry's podcast Saving Grace.
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American action spy film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of Xander Cage. The series has grossed $694 million worldwide.